Top 10 FinTech Angel Investors in Saudi Arabia in November 2024

Last updated: Nov 2024 A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Fintech startups based in Saudi arabia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Fintech companies from Saudi arabia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 FinTech Angel Investors in Saudi Arabia in November 2024

Investor	FinTech Saudi Arabia investments
Musaab Hakami	3
Abdulla Elyas	2
Henrique Dubugras	1
Khaled Al-Fanjan	1
Philippe Teixeira da Mota	1
Turki AlJeaid	1
Michael Ovitz	1
Jeff Immelt	1
Yasser Al-Ghamdi	1
Yaser Alghamdi	1

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GP. Ex-Entrepreneur. Ex-Computer Engineer. Angel Investor. BoD. Ex-CCO & CFO @trySaryApp

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Pluto (getpluto.com) — Unlimited corporate cards with spend controls, petty cash management and automated receipt collection built for businesses in MENA (UAE, Saudi Arabia & more).
Funding Souq — Funding Souq connects established SMEs with worldwide investors for sharia-compliant investments with 15% yearly income through small business debt crowdfunding.
Groundfloor — Building the infrastructure for IRL community

Abdulla Elyas is the Co-Founder of Careem. He previously worked at enwani (Acquired by Careem) as a Co-Founder. Abdulla Elyas attended RWTH Aachen University.

Investment focus

SaaS, Credit, EdTech
Seed, Series A, Debt Financing
Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Pemo — Pemo is an all-in-one spend management solution that empowers your business by packing every company invoice, expense, approval and spending decision into one powerful platform.Our offering includes smart corporate cards, invoice payment systems and expense tracking functions. These are supported by automated approval flows, direct accountingintegration and real-time reporting - features that allow business owners to save time, save money, automate admin and every expense so you can get on with what you do best - building great businesses.
Buildnow — BuildNow is MENAP's first "Build Now Pay Later" solution. We fund the raw materials construction & manufacturing SMEs need, while providing credit terms tailored to optimize their cash flow and supercharge their growth.
Noon - The Social Learning Platform — Why Study Alone Again? Start study groups with your friends and access the best teachers on demand!

Henrique Dubugras is Founder and Co-CEO of Brex — the first of its kind corporate card for startups. A Brazilian entrepreneur, Henrique built payments company Pagar.me — the Stripe of Brazil — when he was sixteen years old. In just three years, Pagar.me grew to $1.5 billion in volume of transactions processed. In the fall of 2016, Henrique soldPagar.me and enrolled at Stanford University. After eight months, he left school and founded Brex, which raised $215M in funding across three rounds in its first 22 months and was the fastest U.S. business-to-business company to be valued at over $1bn.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Brazil, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Parcha AI — Parcha is an AI-powered enterprise software that enables businesses to automate their scale compliance and operations.
Exponential DeFi — Exponential is an investment platform for crypto holders to earn yield on their crypto through decentralized finance (DeFi) safely and easily.
Portal — One integration opens the entire world of Web3 to your users. DeFi, games, NFTs, and more.

Khaled Al-Fanjan is an angel investor.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services
Seed
Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Rabeh — An innovative platform for Crowdfunding, Crowd-investing, and Exchange platform that utilizes advanced technologies.

Co-founder of Shapers. Previously Partner at Hedosophia.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Cloover — Cloover provides a flexible financing solution that allows you to rent renewable technologies and make savings from day 1, completely risk and worry free!
Palm — Cash Management for the Modern Treasury
Kontigo — We help underbanked gig workers in Latam build credit and access group financing where small groups of family or friends lend and save money together. Users can validate their income from multiple sources such as gig apps, catalog sales, and open finance (Uber, Rappi, Didi, Indriver, Avon, and all major banks). After verifying the income wedirectly offer them group savings and group loans, without leaving WhatsApp, their primary messaging app.

Turki AlJeaid

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Wellness
Seed
United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Mala Inc. — Mala provides a buy now, pay later (BNPL) solution specifically designed for B2B transactions in the MENA region. The platform enables businesses to manage their cash flow more effectively while making purchases.
MyBenefits Technolgoies — MyBenefits offers corporates a flexible and scalable solution to standardize staff discounts, flexible benefits and wellness initiatives throughout all markets. HR teams and managers are able to manage access, distribute rewards, monitor usage, and customize what content is displayed through an easy to use admin tool. With a simple requestMyBenefits can turn on hundreds of staff discounts in any market, anywhere.Employees have access to an app based on their work ID and able to use exclusive discounts, offers and access events specifically because they work for an organization.

Michael Ovitz co-founded Creative Artists Agency (CAA) in 1974 and served as its Chairman until 1995. Over that 20-year period, he grew the agency from a start-up organization to the world’s leading talent agency, representing more than 1,000 of the most notable actors, directors, musicians, screenwriters and other personalities in theentertainment industry including Martin Scorsese, Sean Connery, Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, Bill Murray, Dustin Hoffman, Steven Spielberg, David Letterman, Meryl Streep, Barbara Streisand, Michael Crichton and Michael Jackson. In his journey from the mailroom to media mogul, Mr. Ovitz launched the most powerful agency in the world (to date), sold three major Hollywood studios, executed all marketing and advertising for The Coca-Cola Company (including creating the Polar Bear Campaign) and was at the forefront of the digital revolution, making alliances with Intel Corporation and other early Silicon Valley companies. Mr. Ovitz also served as President of the Walt Disney Company, from October 1995 to January 1997. In 2010, Mr. Ovitz founded the venture capital fund Broad Beach Ventures LLC, a portfolio of over thirty companies. He has been a senior advisor to Palantir Technologies for over 10 years and has invested in and advised companies from startups to black swans. He was instrumental in the creation of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and frequently consults for Founders Fund, 8VC and many other firms. In 2018, Mr. Ovitz wrote and published his memoir Who Is Michael Ovitz?, which was on the long list for The Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award. Mr. Ovitz is a graduate of University of California, Los Angeles and helped rebuild the UCLA Medical Center in 1997 while serving as its Chairman for over a decade. Mr. Ovitz is also a notable art collector and serves on The Board of Trustees at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
Method Security — Method builds autonomous cyber defenses for enterprises and governments.
Black Forest Labs — Black Forest Labs creates advanced generative deep learning models for images and videos. They focus on making these technologies widely accessible and transparent, ensuring that their innovations are easy to use and understand. This approach aims to democratize access to cutting-edge technology and foster greater trust and utility.

Immelt has held several global leadership positions since coming to GE in 1982, including roles in GE's Plastics, Appliances, and Healthcare businesses. In 1989 he became an officer of GE and joined the GE Capital Board in 1997.Immelt has been named one of the World's Best CEOs three times by Barron's, and since he began servingas chief executive officer, GE has been named America's Most Admired Company in a poll conducted by Fortunemagazine and one of The World's Most Respected Companies in polls by Barron's and the Financial Times.Immelt was the chair of President Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. He is a member of The American Academy of Arts & Sciences.Immelt earned a B.A. degree in applied mathematics from Dartmouth College in 1978 and an M.B.A. from Harvard University in 1982. He and his wife have one daughter.